tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post6402365851516221450..comments2024-03-27T22:27:16.556-04:00Comments on It's About TV: What's on TV? Wednesday, October 13, 1965Mitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-42376469833311309322016-10-11T15:19:48.236-04:002016-10-11T15:19:48.236-04:00WTCN's telecast of the World Series game was a...WTCN's telecast of the World Series game was a simulcast with NBC.<br /><br />Major League Baseball did allow local radio flagship stations to originate their own World Series broadcasts in the early 1980's, but the local broadcasts are restricted to flagship stations, as noted above, and must also carry network (in this year's case, ESPN Radio) commercials.<br /><br />MLB has never allowed local telecasts of the World Series, but for a time until the early 1980's, <b>did</b> allow local TV broadcasts of League Championship Series games. But that practice has since been discontinued.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-59382861033832400732016-10-11T09:46:26.757-04:002016-10-11T09:46:26.757-04:00I noticed OK CRACKERBY on a CBS affiliate's sc...I noticed OK CRACKERBY on a CBS affiliate's schedule as well. I see that it's also not noted to be in color, which is how ABC aired it, so the station probably recorded it in B&W.<br /><br />I have a question about the show right after it. Was WINGDING a real show? If it was I guess it was local. I ask because THE LUCY SHOW aired an episode right around this time ("Lucy in the Music World") where Lucy was assisting a sponsor in writing down the words for a music show called WINGDING (which makes me wonder why whoever asked her to do that didn't just ask for the words from the show staff who wrote them). As portrayed on Lucy's show, WINGDING was a frenetic satire of frenetic teen music shows like SHINDIG & HULLABALOO. It has a very catchy theme song too, I think.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00483417885845331990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-83936930759266422912016-10-11T01:26:49.222-04:002016-10-11T01:26:49.222-04:00So did Ch.11 just air the NBC feed, or did it use ...So did Ch.11 just air the NBC feed, or did it use local announcers and production? And when did allowing multiple stations to air the World Series end? (IIRC, local broadcasters today are allowed to air radio broadcasts of the WS with their own announcers--but only on the flagship station.)Al Leosnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-58662806046612978922016-10-10T23:36:29.527-04:002016-10-10T23:36:29.527-04:00Channel 3 is CBS, but is airing ABC show "O.K...Channel 3 is CBS, but is airing ABC show "O.K. Crackerby" at 6:30 on Wednesday. Unusual in two ways: this is an ABC series that normally airs on the Thursday night schedule (and it turns out, flops badly -- it was a midseason cancellation).<br /><br />Also, Amos n' Andy didn't have much longer in syndication: it was withdrawn in 1966.Halhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09291930694234773688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-90138361567717581142016-10-10T11:53:43.509-04:002016-10-10T11:53:43.509-04:00Odds & Ends:
- Noting that two of the three ...Odds & Ends:<br /><br /> - Noting that two of the three CBS stations are not carrying the 6:30 offering, <i>Lost In Space</i>, at least not in the network timeslot (maybe on delay?).<br /><i>Lost</i> was new that year; this would have been when Jonathan Harris was still playing Dr. Smith as a villain, before he turned the character into a full-out buffoon (thereby prolonging his stay on the show).<br /><br /> - Back on the bicycle: Rod Serling's appearance with Mike Douglas aired in Chicago the previous week; on this day, Chicago got Mike talking to Ted Sorenson, who was plugging his biography of JFK.<br /><br /> - Robert Merrill was a talk- and game-show regular in these days. <br />He would sing when called upon, but what he really enjoyed was talking and joking with his hosts; for all his classical cred, Robert Merrill (who was originally Moshe Miller) never really left the Borscht Belt.<br /><br /> - <i>The Young Set</i> was ABC's attempt to do a serious talk show in the morning; it only lasted to the end of the year.<br />The host was Phyllis Kirk, who was phasing out her acting career in favor of interviewing; she'd had some success doing this on local shows all over the country, which is why ABC tapped her for this show.<br />On this day, Phyllis Kirk's guest is Keefe Brasselle, about a year after his notorious sweetheart deal with CBS boss James Aubrey blew up in both their faces. Brasselle had just published his revenge novel, <i>The CanniBalS</i>, and was here to plug same.<br />It's embarrassing to write this, I guess, but this is a show I'd have liked to see, if only because Ms. Kirk's Hollywood background would have given her better standing to ask questions ... or not (you never know, do you?).<br /><br /> - Personal note:<br />By the time <i>my</i> team, the Chicago White Sox, won the whole Playoff/World Series megilla in 2005, I'd stopped being a baseball fan for almost half a decade.<br />I had many reasons for that, none of them really relevant to this discussion, but while this was happening, I knew that Chicago and its media were handling this far differently than it would have if the Cubs were the Team of the Hour.<br />I'm seeing this right now, as the Cubs are the Team of the Hour - for the moment.<br />The one thing I remember from '05 was that the team the Sox beat in the Series was - the Houston Astros.<br /> - who aren't even in the National League any more, which does take something away from the experience.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05527404061764217504noreply@blogger.com